"We gave him up to save his life"
For five increasingly horrific years, the adoption agencies insisted that Chad Ostrowski's memory of a father in Korea was fantasy. When Anne Marie and John finally learned the truth about their beloved boy, they made the ultimate sacrifice.
I was appalled at this situation for a number of reasons. Primarily, tho, that the father's girlfriend was able to place a child not her own for adoption ... how does that possibly happen? I do know that in years past, grandparents, sometimes in secret, did bring children to orphanages for adoption placement. But a girlfriend? How does something like this happen?
But obviously it did, at least this one time. And I'm quite sure, it has happened more than this time, as well.
This article depicts a tragedy at so many levels it's hard to know where to begin. I can only hope that Chad, his APs, and his Korean family can find a way to love and support each other through such immeasurable pain and find light in such dark and murky circumstances.
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Hi, Roberta, thanks for the shout-out, for my blog but more importantly for this article. It's an unbelievable story, but absolutely true - and like you say, I believe it's not unique. The difference may be that the Ostrowskis were able to solve the mystery, and that Chad was reunited with his family. But the pain to all is hard to even imagine, and that fact that others are living with it right now is hard to acknowledge.
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